Divorce

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun That which separates.

II. Divorce ·noun To make away; to put away.

III. Divorce ·noun Separation; disunion of things closely united.

IV. Divorce ·noun The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

V. Divorce ·noun To separate or disunite; to Sunder.

VI. Divorce ·noun To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.

VII. Divorce ·noun The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband — divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board.".

VIII. Divorce ·noun A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.